Hexbreaker, the name of the game, comes from the curse system. Curses are debuffs applied to the player during combat encounters and in many cases the player would have to break them to win the encounter.  The idea of curses came from me after thinking about the theme "break the rules" for a while. Alongside curses came the hexbreak system, which was necessary for the player to be able to win some combat encounters.

The most difficult task for me was undoubtedly the talisman system. The talisman system had a few requirements: it must improve the player, it must be randomized and it must be usable during combat. In addition to these requirements, it essentially had to be an inventory system of some kind, since talismans had to carry over from scene-to-scene. To add even more on, the talisman system had to have a subsystem: the action talisman system. Action talismans are talismans that can be used during the flow of combat--they edit the player's attacks and the quick-time event that the player has to complete to land a successful hit.